Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage

A Jurisprudence of Rights and Liberties

John C. Domino

John C. Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage’s progressive jurisprudence during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history. This era witnessed numerous seismic shifts, including the manner in which judicial campaigns were conducted, the rise of million dollar judicial races, a dramatic change in the partisan and ideological composition of the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and most of the fourteen intermediate appellate courts, as well as the birth of the judicial reform movement in Texas. Gammage, who served as a court of appeals judge and as a state supreme court justice, forged a solid liberal record arguing for robust individual rights, including the right to privacy, freedom of expression, due process, and equal protection, whether those rights were implied in the Texas constitution, rooted in an evolving common law, or set out in state and federal judicial precedent.

Lexington Books

Pages: 284 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-7858-5 • Hardback • October 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-7859-2 • eBook • October 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Law / Courts, Law / Jurisprudence, History / United States / State & Local / General

Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage

A Jurisprudence of Rights and Liberties

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Summary

John C. Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage’s progressive jurisprudence during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history. This era witnessed numerous seismic shifts, including the manner in which judicial campaigns were conducted, the rise of million dollar judicial races, a dramatic change in the partisan and ideological composition of the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and most of the fourteen intermediate appellate courts, as well as the birth of the judicial reform movement in Texas. Gammage, who served as a court of appeals judge and as a state supreme court justice, forged a solid liberal record arguing for robust individual rights, including the right to privacy, freedom of expression, due process, and equal protection, whether those rights were implied in the Texas constitution, rooted in an evolving common law, or set out in state and federal judicial precedent.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 284 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-7858-5 • Hardback • October 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-7859-2 • eBook • October 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Law / Courts, Law / Jurisprudence, History / United States / State & Local / General

Author

John C. Domino is professor of political science at Sam Houston State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Justice Bob Gammage

Chapter 2: Texas Third Court of Appeals at Austin

Chapter 3: Texas Supreme Court

Chapter 4: Court Wars: Judicial Politics and Reform

Chapter 5: Jurisprudence and Judicial Politics: A Final Assessment

Reviews

This is a well-written and thoroughly researched book on a significant Texas justice, the issues he faced, and the problems of the partisan judicial election system in which he worked.
— Anthony Champagne, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Dallas

Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage

A Jurisprudence of Rights and Liberties

John C. Domino

Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage

A Jurisprudence of Rights and Liberties

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